The Heartstick method

Who’d want to live in Putnam County
I as such would leave
the sheriffs run the department
of correction
and they achieve
a degree of success they feel
with strays dogs that they see
for the animals are put to death
in utter agony
us is made of the heart stick
an illegal way to die
most places have banned it
but here it does belie
the cruelty and the ignorance
and the arrogance that’s there
its an ugly nasty sentence
leading often to despair
if the heart is missed the lungs
are hit and fill up with water
and they
put the victim in such a state
and slowly pass away

these sheriffs need correction
these sheriffs ought to see
that their arrogance is killing souls
in a way that should never be